Flavor-Enhanced Beverage Product and Method of Enhancing the Flavor Thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017280751-A1
Application number	US-201615088575-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 1, 2016
Priority date	Apr 1, 2016
Publication date	Oct 5, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

A flavor-enhanced beverage includes an added amount of pyroglutamic acid or a salt thereof. The pyroglutamic acid may be in the form of L-pyroglutamic acid, D-pyroglutamic acid, monosodium L-pyroglutamate, monosodium D-pyroglutamate, or a mixture thereof. Both ready-to-drink beverages (such as fruit juices, vegetable juices, coffee, tea, carbonated soft drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks, dairy, and low calorie drinks) as well as concentrated beverages used for the preparation of ready-to-drink beverages benefit from the addition of the pyroglutamic acid. The addition to a beverage product may be in an amount of up to about 3,000 ppm of pyroglutamic acid or a salt thereof, in concentrates, or up to about 300 ppm in ready-to-drink beverages.

First claim

We claim:

1 . A beverage product comprising an added amount of pyroglutamic acid or a salt thereof.

2 . The beverage product of claim 1 wherein the pyroglutamic acid is in the form of L-pyroglutamic acid, D-pyroglutamic acid, monosodium L-pyroglutamate, monosodium D-pyroglutamate, or a mixture thereof.

3 . The beverage product of claim 1 wherein the added pyroglutamic acid consists of L-pyroglutamic acid.

4 . The beverage product of claim 1 wherein the added pyroglutamic acid consists of D-pyroglutamic acid.

5 . The beverage product of claim 1 wherein the added pyroglutamic acid consists of L-pyroglutamic acid and D-pyroglutamic acid.

6 . The beverage product of claim 1 wherein the added pyroglutamic acid comprises L-pyroglutamic acid and D-pyroglutamic acid in a ratio ranging from about 50:50 to about 100:0.

7 . The beverage product of claim 6 comprising dairy.

8 . The beverage product of claim 1 further comprising an added flavor.

9 . The beverage product of claim 1 further comprising a sweetener, water, dairy, caffeine, carbonation, fruit juice, vegetable juice, food grade acid, or a mixture thereof.

10 . The beveage product of claim 1 wherein the beverage product is a ready-to-drink beverage and wherein the added amount of pyroglutamic acid or salt thereof is up to about 300 ppm.

11 . The beverage product of claim 10 wherein the added amount of pyroglutamic acid or salt thereof is up to about 200 ppm.

12 . The beverage product of claim 10 wherein the added amount of pyroglutamic acid or salt thereof is between about 15 ppm to about 150 ppm.

13 . The beverage product of claim 10 wherein the pyroglutamic acid is L-pyroglutamic acid.

14 . The beverage product of claim 1 wherein the beverage product is a beverage concentrate.

15 . The beverage product of claim 14 wherein the added amount of pyroglutamic acid is up to about 3,000 ppm.

16 . A method of enhancing a beverage product, the method comprising the adding of a pyroglutamic acid or a salt thereof into the beverage product.

17 . The method of claim 16 wherein the pyroglutamic acid is in the form of L-pyroglutamic acid, D-pyroglutamic acid, monosodium L-pyroglutamate, monosodium D-pyroglutamate, or a mixture thereof.

18 . The method of claim 16 wherein the pyroglutamic acid consists of L-pyroglutamic acid.

19 . The method of claim 16 wherein the pyroglutamic acid consists of D-pyroglutamic acid.

20 . The method of claim 16 wherein the pyroglutamic acid consists of L-pyroglutamic acid and D-pyroglutamic acid.

21 . The method of claim 16 wherein the pyroglutamic acid comprises L-pyroglutamic acid and D-pyroglutamic acid in a ratio ranging from about 50:50 to about 100:0.

22 . The method of claim 16 further comprising the adding the pyroglutamic acid or salt thereof to a flavor or flavor solvent prior to the step of adding into the beverage product.

23 . The method of claim 16 wherein the beverage product is a ready-to-drink beverage comprising the pyroglutamic acid or salt thereof in an amount of up to about 300 ppm.

24 . The method of claim 16 wherein the beverage product is a beverage concentrate.

25 . The method of claim 24 further comprising the step of diluting the beverage concentrate to prepare a ready-to-drink beverage.

Assignees

• Frito Lay North America Inc

Inventors

• Baier Stefan K
• CHAMBERS Peta-Gaye
• Johnson Winsome
• Potineni Rajesh Venkata

Classifications

• A23F3/40

  Tea flavour; Tea oil; Flavouring of tea or tea extract (synthetic tea flavours A23L27/20) · CPC title

• A23L2/02

  containing fruit or vegetable juices · CPC title

• A23L2/56 Primary

  Flavouring or bittering agents (sweeteners A23L2/60) · CPC title

• A23L2/40

  Effervescence-generating compositions · CPC title

• A23L2/385

  Concentrates of non-alcoholic beverages · CPC title